MrSinatra;636498 Wrote:
>
> i wonder if eventually someone will create a SBS/itunes server type
> hybrid...? some kind of open source server that supports airplay? if
> they did, it would really solve a lot of issues for most people on both
> sides of this.
>
You mean like an Vortexbox Appliance (which already exists) ?
It currently run:
- A Squeezebox Server
- A UPnP server
- A DAAP server
- Also works like a player through its "Vortexbox Player"
- Contains web based tagging and automatic ripping software
- Everything pre-installed I believe, more or less you just have to
turn on the box, put the music on it and start playing.
And pretty soon unless they are afraid of legal actions from Apple, I
bet it will also run a ShairPort server which is the audio portion of
AirPort protocol. Since they already include a DAAP server it feels
like ShairPort should also be a possibility.
As mentioned elsewhere, including full support for AirPlay gets more
complicated unless you have enough margins to pay the license fees to
Apple.
Or is VortexBox uninteresting because it's released by a small company
and not a big organization like Logitech, Apple or Microsoft ?
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